Wilhelm I of Germany

Wilhelm II of Germany (27 March 1797-9 March 1888) was the Emperor of the German Empire from 1861 to 1888.

Biography
Wilhelm was the second son of Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and he fought in the War of the Sixth Coalition during the 1814 phase of the Napoleonic Wars. Wilhelm succeeded Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia upon his death in 1861, and he made a trade agreement with the Austrian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, Poland-Lithuania, and the Russian Empire, while declaring war on Bavaria, Westphalia, Wurttemberg, and the Barbary States.